The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-07-07
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Items Of Interest From Both Sides
of the Divide.
Notes Clipped and Condensed From
Exchanges Published Within
the Territory.

Exchanges Published Within
the Territory.
Townsend is to have a jail.
An occasional COW or calf is killed by
bears at Radersburg.
The house delivery of Q. 8. mail began
in Helena on the 1st.
Court convened in the new court house
for the first time last Tuesday.
The total bullion shipments from Butte
for the week ending July 2 were $751;
$50.
JuCge Mcconnell addressed the people
of Butte at Maguire's Opera House on
the Fourth.
The Bozeman nine beat the Townsends
on the Fourth in a game of base ball;
score 16 TOT.
S. L. McIlhenny, sheep-herder near
Big Timber was struck and killed by
lightning last Friday.
Our territorial exchanges are full of the
doings of the-numerous new militia COM
panies on the Fourth.
The Bozeman academy is the name OF
a new educational venture to be started
at Bozeman, September 18th.
The new court house at Helena was
dedicated with proper ceremonies by the
Helena bar association, last Tuesday.
Butte and Helena were remarkably free
from any OF those accidents so usually a
feature of the celebration of the fourth.
The wrestling match between Col. Nc
Laughlin and Walter Jane arranged for
last Saturday at Butte did not come of,
Jane failing to show up.
A party of fifty y-seven Massachusetts
school teachers arrived from the West
last Saturday and are now making an
eight day tour Of the park.
Uuyeiuu1
nation prohibiting the importation OF
sheep from Oregon, California, Nevada
WASHINGTON, Idaho and Utah.
The Northwest Tribune says the In
dians are continuing to kill elk and deer
in large quantities near the head OF
Eiqht-nile, in Bitter Root valley.
Missoula will sell $1,000 in coupon
bonds on July 81. They will bear 7 per
cent. interest, and be payable IN fifteen
Years and redeemable in five years.
Indian Henry, who was arrested for
ATTEMPTED rape on Mrs. Phillips, at
Spring Hill, some time since, was re-
leased because of insufficient evidence.
The Helena base ball team which went
to Livingstone on the Fourth to play
the return game with the nine OF thai
nlace we're victorious in score OF IL to
10.
Bull Shoe, Piegan chief, came to Hell
ena last Friday evening as complaining
witness against some white men WHO
stole q horse and mule from him last
April
The Butte and South Butte base ball
teams played match game at the race
track at Butte last Monday with re-
sulting score of IS to Il in favor OF the
Butte's.
The races at the Fair Grounds in Hell
ena last Monday netted the NJ. A. M. M
association, which owned the grounds
$4,000 in gate money, fees, and pool per
. centages.
Independent: It is definitely an
nounced that Jerry Collins, editor ano
nroprietor of the River Press, has pur
chased the Great Falls Tribune and vii
take charge of it in a few weeks.
James S. Keerl, the newly-appolnte(
t clerk of the district court at Helena, vlc'
: Mr.. Tatem, resigned, took possession
: the office last week. MIR. Keerl was for
. merlv chief clerk Of Surveyor GENERA
: Greene.
A man named johnson, incensed at no
:, being permitted to ride free attempted t
L wreck train on the Montana Union
: Garrison last Friday night. He was CAP
! tured on the spot and narrowly escape
lynching.
/ Butte and Helena are having surfei
- Of attractions in things theatrical an
II musical, the Philharmonic Club, MI
Il Rhea, Min, Bandmann, Warde and lesse
n stars having been in both places durln
,. the last two weeks.
IS The civil engineers of Montana orga1
At lied in Helena last Tuesday, IN respon'
D. to circular letter requesting their a
r tendance. They were out in considerab
pr force, and the enrolment of membersh
contains some well-known names.